Words and Distinctions for the Common Good : : Practical Reason in the Logic of Social Science / / / Gabriel Abend.
How social scientists' disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about itSocial scientists do research on a variety of topics-gender, capitalism, populism, and race and ethnicity, among others. They make descriptive and explanatory claims about...
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Abend, Gabriel, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. Words and Distinctions for the Common Good : Practical Reason in the Logic of Social Science / / Gabriel Abend. Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (464 p.) : 15 b/w illus. 5 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations and typographic conventions -- Prologue (or, will social scientists' never-ending disputes over words ever end?) -- First Act -- 1 Sandwichness wars -- 2 The problem -- 3 Nine ways to decline -- 4 Technical FAQs -- 5 Two activities -- 6 Practical reason activities -- Second Act -- 7 Word first -- 8 Activity WF and its discontents -- 9 Distinction first -- 10 Conversation starters (fragments, sketches, suggestions, doubts) -- 11 As a matter of fact -- Epilogue (so, will social scientists' never-ending disputes over words ever end?) -- Appendix: Make Pluto Great Again -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star How social scientists' disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about itSocial scientists do research on a variety of topics-gender, capitalism, populism, and race and ethnicity, among others. They make descriptive and explanatory claims about empathy, intelligence, neoliberalism, and power. They advise policymakers on diversity, digitalization, work, and religion. And yet, as Gabriel Abend points out in this provocative book, they can't agree on what these things are and how to identify them. How to tell if something is a religion or a cult or a sect? What is empathy? What makes this society a capitalist one? Disputes of this sort arise again and again in the social sciences.Abend argues that these disagreements have been doubly misconceived. First, they conflate two questions: how a social science community should use its most important words, and what distinctions it should accept and work with. Second, there's no fact of the matter about either. Instead, they're practical reason questions for a community, which aim at epistemically and morally good outcomes. Abend calls on social science communities to work together on their words, distinctions, and classifications. They must make collective decisions about the uses of words, the acceptability of distinctions, and the criteria for assessing both. These decisions aren't up to individual scholars; the community gets the last word. According to Abend, the common good, justice, and equality should play a significant role in the logic of scientific research.Gabriel Abend is professor of sociology at University of Lucerne and the author of The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics (Princeton). Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023) Social sciences Terminology. Terms and phrases. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology sh. Gabriel Abend. Pluto. Princeton University Press. Words and Distinctions for the Common Good. anthropology. categories. classification. concepts. conceptual disagreements. epistemic values. history. key words. logic of inquiry. logic of social research. merely verbal disputes. methodology. philosophy of social science. political science. sandwich. social science methods. social science. sociological theory. sociology. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2023 English 9783111319261 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2023 9783111318806 ZDB-23-DSL Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110749748 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691247076?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691247076 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691247076/original |
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